iamcal.com Since May 2000

on everything2 - the united states should go to war with everybody. excellent reasoning.

there's a discussion happening on p61 at the moment about multimethod dispatch on return continuations. this sounds like pretty crazy at first, with fungeoid implications, but could lead to some very nice debugging hook oppertunities.

a nice collection of efficiency quotes. two of those adorn the walls in the office.

i've implemented an installer for mt at the request of anil and might get some tech toy in return. but the question is, what do i want that i don't already have? hmm

seen the table tennis done with blackout costumes? this advert uses the same technique very well. linkage via lea.

blogger broke their v2 api today, which we've been using for flickr posting (since v1 doesn't support titles and their atom api is still sketchy). we've alerted the team and hopefully they'll get it fixed today.

oooh - ev1 are offering unmetered servers for $199 a month. might be time for an upgrade

the "travelling in the uk" faq is a good source of general information. e might want to have a read of it ;)

"it was like being in a candle store without a pipe bomb". maddox didn't like i, robot.

what. the. fuck. i did a "pear upgrade-all" and it first failed because of dependencies. fair enough - stupid that it didn;t automatically install the dependency, but forgivable. but then once finished, pear was broken because it used php 4.2.0 only features. how fucking stupid is that? the people in charge or pear are braindead idiots.